Listening for a life : a dialogic ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through her songs and stories /

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"In one sense a folklorist's portrayal of a folk artist's life and art, Listening for a Life is equally a rethinking of the processes involved in such work, not only in how the folklorist conveys her subject but in how her subject constitutes and performs herself into being through di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sawin, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2004.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, > 1913-
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, > 1913- > Interviews.
Eldreth, Bessie Mae, > 1913- > Entretiens.
Women folklorists > Appalachian Region > Biography.
Women storytellers > Appalachian Region > Biography.
Folk singers > Appalachian Region > Biography.
Folklore > Appalachian Region.
Folk music > Appalachian Region.
Femmes folkloristes > Appalaches > Biographies.
Conteuses > Appalaches > Biographies.
Chanteuses de folklore > Appalaches > Biographies.
Folklore > Appalaches.
Musique folklorique > Appalaches.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Folk music.
Folk singers.
Folklore.
Manners and customs.
Women folklorists.
Women storytellers.
Appalachian Region > Social life and customs.
Appalaches > Mœurs et coutumes.
Appalachian Region.
Biographies.
Interviews.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity
  • "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood
  • "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition
  • "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative
  • "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories
  • "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition
  • "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance
  • Epilogue.

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